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  #2965543 10-Sep-2022 17:20
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So not all Florida judges are Trump sycophants  🙃

 

 

It should be noted that Trump originally deliberately filed in the Federal District for which there is only one judge - Aileen Cannon. Judge Middlebrooks was very scathing of that transparent attempt to pervert the course of justice.

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  #2965826 11-Sep-2022 08:49
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Nothing sus here

Trump's Very Special Master

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The most special master ever.


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  #2965903 11-Sep-2022 16:15
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45 minute video.

Summary Ty Cobb was hired to defend Trump against the FBI Mueller Russian election interference scandal.

However, after a year, he left Trump's team. Trump’s didn't like his “conciliatory” approach. Ty said Trump is “incapable of acting other than in his perceived self-interest or for revenge”.

Later the lawyer publicly stated the FBI Mueller investigation was not a "witch hunt." Moreover some month later he added that he thinks the FBI director Mueller is "an American hero".

In this recent interview Ty said the ex-president is a “deeply wounded narcissist”, claiming that’s one of the two toxic traits that dictate his actions and decision making. He believes the other character flaw of Trump that he refused to accept the 2020 election results.

CBS News: Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb thinks Justice Department's Trump investigation is related to Jan. 6

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  #2966050 12-Sep-2022 10:53
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/10/truth-social-flop-says-about-trump-00055977

 

A rather scathing (and amusing) look at why Truth Social isn't doing as well as Trump thinks it is (or could be).

 

Also - while I agree with everything that Ty bloke said, does anyone else look at him and think of Boss Hogg?

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  #2966321 12-Sep-2022 19:27
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quickymart:

Also - while I agree with everything that Ty bloke said, does anyone else look at him and think of Boss Hogg?

 

 

Not really, but it is very much an Older Southern Gentleman look.

 

 

Edited to add: Ah, it was the other Ty Cobb who was from Georgia. No idea why this one has gone with that look.

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  #2966449 13-Sep-2022 08:27
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One of Trump's cronies is running a "weird" campaign in Pennsylvania.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/09/12/politics/doug-mastriano-pennsylvania-governor/index.html

 

What stuck out to me was this bit: "As he tours the Commonwealth, Mastriano has essentially walled himself off from the general public, traveling within a bubble of security guards and jittery aides who aim to not only keep him safe, but ensure he only comes into contact with true believers..."

 

I feel like this actually harkens back to when Trump was running for re-election in 2020 - outside of the debates, I note that he only ever surrounded himself with supporters. He didn't attend any outreach sessions with anyone outside of his base; he definitely didn't go on any walkabouts or anything that I can remember. (I don't recall if Joe did - I don't think so either but I could be wrong).

 

Hopefully this guy also loses - he was there on January 6 and is a vehement election denier. His Democratic opponent leads him currently.

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  #2966501 13-Sep-2022 08:51
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Politico: Trump judges are on a tear

...The former president's appointees to the bench have been more partisan and often rule in Trump's favor.

Among the provocative decisions from Trump-appointed judges:

Arkansas: the Voting Rights Act can’t be enforced by private individuals or groups...

Florida: struck out mask use in transportation just days before it was set to expire.

Texas: blocked the Biden administration from lifting pandemic-related immigration restrictions Trump imposed in 2020.

Those envelope-pushing rulings have fueled questions about whether Trump’s judicial picks are more conservative or more partisan than those of previous Republican presidents and whether decades of unorthodox decrees from those judicial picks lie ahead.

In sheer numbers, Trump’s impact on the federal judiciary was profound. During just four years in office, he replaced a third of the Supreme Court, 54 members of the circuit appeals courts and 174 district court judges. In all, about 30 percent of the federal bench.

Trump’s tally of appeals court judges came in just one short of the number former President Barack Obama managed to get on the bench in twice as much time. The 11th Circuit, which is expected to hear the government’s appeal of Cannon’s special master order, is a majority Trump court with six of the 11 active judges appointed by the 45th president.

Trump’s preference for younger nominees also means his judicial picks could be handing down decisions for the next half-century.
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  #2966505 13-Sep-2022 08:59
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Washington Post: Look! It’s the winged monkeys of the Wizard of Trump

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  #2966508 13-Sep-2022 09:06
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It's all about killing time ... and justice delayed ...

 

The NY Times - Trump Asks Judge to Keep Blocking F.B.I. From Working With Seized Classified Files

 

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Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump asked a federal judge on Monday to deny the Justice Department’s request to immediately restart a key part of its criminal investigation into his hoarding of sensitive government documents at his residence in Florida.

 

Renewing their request for an expansive independent review of records seized from Mr. Trump, the former president’s legal team argued that documents marked as classified should remain off limits to the F.B.I. and prosecutors. 

 

They asked the judge, Aileen M. Cannon,* to maintain her order barring agents from using any of the materials taken from his estate until an outside arbiter, known as a special master, has vetted all of them. ...

 

The filing on Monday was the latest salvo in what threatens to become a protracted court fight over a special master and the powers that person should have in filtering the trove of seized documents.

 

 

* a Trump appointee




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  #2966509 13-Sep-2022 09:18
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If he had nothing to hide, why is he so hellbent on stopping the investigation? If he had nothing to worry about, surely he would just let justice run its course?

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  #2966513 13-Sep-2022 09:39
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quickymart:  If he had nothing to hide, why is he so hellbent on stopping the investigation? If he had nothing to worry about, surely he would just let justice run its course?

 

 

 

 

Q.   Why is he so hellbent on stopping the investigation?

 

  • A 1. Because he's guilty as sin.

  • A 2. Because he wants to delay his prosecution until after the mid-term elections and Republicans take control of the Senate - then he'll use his stacked Supreme Court to wriggle free.

  • A 3. Because he may truly believe* that he will be re-elected as President and become "immune" from prosecution. Again.

* He remains a deluded Narcissist




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  #2966521 13-Sep-2022 10:18
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The NY Times - Justice Dept. Issues 40 Subpoenas in a Week, Expanding Its Jan. 6 Inquiry

 

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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department has issued about 40 subpoenas over the past week seeking information about the actions of former President Donald J. Trump and his associates related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol ...

 

Two top Trump advisers, Boris Epshteyn and Mike Roman, had their phones seized as evidence ...

 

The department’s actions represent a substantial escalation of a slow-simmer investigation two months before the midterm elections, coinciding with a separate inquiry into Mr. Trump’s hoarding of sensitive documents at his residence in Florida, Mar-a-Lago.

 

Among those the department has contacted since Wednesday are people who are close to the former president and have played significant roles in his post-White House life.

 



 

Excellent news, but is it too late to drain the swamp?




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  #2966583 13-Sep-2022 11:25
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Note a hundred years ago, "publicity" was now what we call "transparency" / "public relations".

Sunlight Foundation for open government: Brandeis And The History Of Transparency
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In 1913, Supreme Court Justice Brandeis made his famous statement that “sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants” Harper’s Weekly article, entitled “What Publicity Can Do.”

But it was an image that had been in his mind for decades. Twenty years earlier, in a letter to his fiance, Brandeis had expressed an interest in writing a “a sort of companion piece” to his influential article on “The Right to Privacy,” but this time he would focus on “The Duty of Publicity.”

He had been thinking, he wrote, “about the wickedness of people shielding wrongdoers & passing them off (or at least allowing them to pass themselves off) as honest men.”

He then proposed a remedy:
"If the broad light of day could be let in upon men’s actions, it would purify them as the sun disinfects."
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  #2966587 13-Sep-2022 12:02
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The Washington Post - Justice Dept. says it will accept Trump nominee for special master

 

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The Justice Department filed court papers Monday signaling that it would accept Raymond J. Dearie - a former chief federal judge in New York - as a special master charged with reviewing papers seized by the FBI from former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and club. ...

 

In the 1980s, Dearie was the U.S Attorney in Brooklyn - a time when the office’s workload was dominated by the pursuit of mobsters, gang leaders, and financial fraudsters. *

 

He was nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan and became one of the most highly-regarded jurists in the Eastern District of New York. 

 

Dearie, 78, has previously served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees sensitive national security cases.

 



 

*  How appropriate - The Don's father, Fred Trump, was in his prime in Brooklyn in the 1980s.  😶




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  #2966595 13-Sep-2022 12:33
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quickymart: If he had nothing to hide, why is he so hellbent on stopping the investigation? If he had nothing to worry about, surely he would just let justice run its course?

A conviction before the next presidential election will make running in the election difficult for Trump. Not impossible imo because the supreme court has become unpredictable in a number of ways.

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